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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 6A: Deuteronomy 1:1–21:9, Revised is unavailable, but you can change that!

For centuries the book of Deuteronomy has been studied as a compilation of three sermons followed by three appendices. In his penetrating new study of this fifth book of the Pentateuch, Duane Christensen argues that “Deuteronomy is best explained as a didactic poem, composed to be recited publicly to music in ancient Israel within a liturgical setting.” Christensen calls readers to understand...

does YHWH require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” On the meaning of the phrase ליראה את־יהוה, “to fear YHWH,” see the Comment on 6:2, and the literature cited there. The “fear of the Lord” is a dominant theme in the wisdom literature, particularly the book of Proverbs (cf. Prov 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge”). Careful prosodic analysis suggests that the term is defined here by means of poetic parallelism: “to fear YHWH”
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